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because I was reaching so many people with Bean's story, the zoo that I worked at started allowing me to bring animals like cockatoos and reptiles home

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

But this is crazier: it worked somehow. So I'm live streaming one day and there's some --

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

in my parents garage when I was 20 we worked hard and in 10 years Apple had grown from Just the Two of Us in a

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

didn't have a flight. I asked him if he worked in the airport and he said, "Yeah, sort of."

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

Emma needed a better life, and I knew this was her chance. I had learned too much since I first worked with Alex to just sit there while Emma's defining decade

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and she found an old roommate's cousin who worked at an art museum in another state. That weak tie helped her get a job there.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And one time when I was about 12 years old, one of my closest friends finally worked up the courage to ask me about it. And I could tell she was so nervous.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

was going to kick their penalty kicks. And it worked. He was so good at attaching emotions to learning.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

So let me explain. For 15 years, I worked on building AI. I started one of the early AI companies.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

The universe has been doing this for a long time, and the mergers that worked left descendants. The ones that failed left fossils.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

She sang for churches and did backup singing for extra cash. My father worked in the factory at a polyurethane company. He had Carhartt before it was fashionable, OK?

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

We no longer shared rooms, we had a car that worked, my parents weren't stressed about bills

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Ben didn’t dismiss this. He worked with it. He had me write down five adjectives

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

He actually rented an apartment a block from the court. And we worked together every day, focusing on that word. Bob didn't just give me a mantra, he gave me a weapon.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

(Laughter) If you've ever worked in the corporate world, you probably have heard of this diabolical exercise.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

I used to be an anchorman. I worked at ABC News for 21 years. It was a very stressful job.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

I was grinding. I worked around the clock. I spent hours finessing my Power Points,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

where I was rewarded with good grades because I put in the effort and I worked hard. But in truth, work is full of real, flesh-and-bone people

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

and prepare young people for predictable jobs. It worked for the time. Literacy rose, the middle class grew.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

which began in Chicago in medical school. The very first research project that I worked on as a medical student was to help design healthcare interventions

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

The important thing is, we put in place a system that worked, and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once. It saved me when I was in the middle of writing "Eat, Pray, Love,"

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

it's unlikely your therapist will ever ask you about your laundry. I've worked in mental health for about a decade. I've been in therapy even longer,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

The face looking back at me was a face, but not exactly my face. A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over, and I could not turn them off.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

and I know this, because I saw it when I lived and worked in Seoul, South Korea, as the NPR Bureau Chief there nearly 10 years ago.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

Under the technological gaze, I worry that our bodies become projects to be worked on ... forever. And if we don’t slow down this body augmentation arms race

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

that weren't meant for my disease. Amazingly, they worked, I survived, I returned to medical school, and I got what I think might be the worst before-and-after picture of all time.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

in a last-ditch effort to save him. And amazingly, they worked. Instead of planning Joseph's funeral service,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

Prior to working at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, I worked in medical research, and the parallels are surprisingly striking.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

What is going on here? I worked with a machine-learning and satellite data firm called Atlas Maps

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

letting the clock dictate when they worked how long they took for lunch and when they went home every night

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in a nuclear-threat way. Dr. Kissinger, who we all worked with very closely, was one of the architects of mutually assured destruction,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

Along the way, we've worked with journalists, with courts and with governments on a range of cases

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

I wanted AI to be developed for good. I worked on applications in medicine, for medical diagnostics, climate, to get better carbon capture.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

from what they see as unjust competition right now. So they propose a solution that has been used and worked before -- licensing.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

I know, because I've done it myself. I've worked in what we now call generative AI for over a decade, and last September,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

And also, by the way, something I really, really, really love to do." I got lucky and it worked out. Today I'm a columnist at the "Washington Post."

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

Clara has been assisted and yes, probably worked faster because of AI. But she's also maintained direct material engagement at strategic points.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

And ultimately it can be said she has written this document herself. Moreover, she worked better because of AI. AI provocations at every stage of the process

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

You haven't bought it. You haven't earned it. You haven't traded it in. You haven't worked for it. It's just given to you.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough. After several more years of teaching,

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

I was thinking, "Thank you" when I ate, when I drank, when I worked, when I walked, sat silently,

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

with Chicago's beloved improvisation club, The Second City. We worked with their training center, which is where regular people like you and me go to learn improvisation.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

The house and everything in it burned, including almost everything that my dad had worked so hard to do and leave for us after he died.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

Making art is activism. I had a client that I worked with who was in the science space, and they were working in a climate change sector,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

And I get it: people didn't just want to know if the study worked, they wanted to know if it really worked:

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

people didn't just want to know if the study worked, they wanted to know if it really worked: that is, if it was capable of producing love that would last,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

He nodded. "So, then it worked," I said. I don't think this is the answer he was looking for.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and I focus my studies in linguistics. And I worked with intercultural couples to uncover their language behavior and their dynamic.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

Every time technology changes, that the rules need to be worked out again. That you've got a situation where, you know, your words were published,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

And before that, I did humanitarian aid. So I worked mainly in countries affected by conflict and natural disasters. And we were just seeing

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

and Lisa put that inheritance toward a down payment on that home. And then Andy of course worked to make the mortgage payments. And all of their premarital and marital property

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

of the exposure to stress and trauma. So I think for us, we've always worked within systems with this idea, I guess the analogy for your sector

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

and then immediately, like you, started thinking, OK, if this drug worked for me, are there other drugs that could work for other patients?

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

And so that's when we knew ... it worked. (Laughter)

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

In fact, two days ago, I just came back from China. I've worked there half my career, and I think essentially, the AI industry today

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

In high school, I got myself a Commodore 64 and worked on machine translation. I built a couple of AI companies, I sold one of them to Uber.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

we created the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and a lot of people worked hard to create infrastructure like this to prevent that.

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

our conflicts could spark innovation, creativity, even hope? I've worked across contested spaces for as long as I can remember. I spent a decade alongside Palestinians and Israelis,

A Fresh Approach to Resolving Conflicts | Darya Shaikh | TED · TED

Democracy is how we decide what to do with that capability. Since then, I've worked on using democracy as a solution in India, the US, the UK, Taiwan.

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

in India, the US, the UK, Taiwan. I've worked alongside incredible collaborators to use democracy to help solve COVID,

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

so I could cover things on the three days a week their dad worked as a flight attendant for Qantas. I smeared sunblock on their noses and Vegemite on their toast.

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

Diets don't work. No diet in the history of the world has ever worked for more than two percent of the population. Exercise programs usually start in January;

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

For so long, I wanted everyone else to show her that she was worthy. It never worked. So I finally turned towards her

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

building your own tools is often the way to get the information you need. It barely worked. We had to spend nights soldering and improvising to try to get it going,

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

And for decades, thousands and thousands of AI experts worked on building incredible chess computers.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

that I started to gain a completely different sense of how the world worked and what my place was in it.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

Now Elizabeth Ann isn't the only time that we've done cloning. We’ve worked with the Przewalski’s horses. These are the only true species of wild horse remaining in the world.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

I built a lean team. We worked in the shadows. Everything was on a need-to-know basis.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

it was just going to slow us down. And it worked, but not very long. The problem was, as we started to grow and become a legitimate business,

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

I’d been in marketing for almost 20 years at that point. I'd worked on Super Bowl ads, global brand campaigns. I thought I knew everything that there was to know

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

You see, Monet was such a perfectionist that one time he worked on a set of paintings for over three years.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

the world seems to be working short-staffed. I'm a nurse and have worked in healthcare leadership for a long time, and I'm here to tell you, in this profession,

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

I try to remember my mom's moral compass and the principles she worked so hard to nurture in me. I imagine holding a compass in my hand,

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

Now, those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average, and when asked afterward,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said, "I really liked your novel. I didn't like the ending.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

because the core of the problem lay elsewhere. And as I worked on community development projects over the coming years trying to help build schools,

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

For me, citizenship means you have to act, and that's what we required. And amazingly, it worked. Last year, more than 155,000 citizens in the New York area alone

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

and I still didn’t let that go. I worked for the Coastguard, was made a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. I wrote regulations for the United States --

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

Well, my time at the Coast Guard was a really good time. And after that -- I only worked one year -- I said, "That's enough. One year's enough for me to do that."

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And I got in my sailboat, sailed all the way through the Caribbean -- it wasn't really my sailboat, I kind of worked on that boat -- got to Venezuela and I started walking.

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

Throughout my career as a mathematician, I've worked to separate truth from fiction, whether investigating epidemics

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

when the world seems like it's burning, is art really worth it? I grew up and I worked serious jobs and did art on the side. Let me tell you about the most serious job that I ever worked.

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED

I grew up and I worked serious jobs and did art on the side. Let me tell you about the most serious job that I ever worked. I ran an insurance agency

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED